VPS Deploy sent me this offer last week. They just had this new cluster going online in OVH in France with Intel SSD 320 drives, and they are providing recurring $2 off on their “Level 1” plan. Use promo code lowendssd to get the discount, or use this sign up link to order. It would be $6.99/month after the discount, and here is what you will get
- 768MB guaranteed/1024MB burstable memory
- 10GB storage on SSD
- 500GB/month data transfer on 33Mbps
- OpenVZ/SolusVM
They are using Xeon W3520 and Intel SSD 320-Series with no RAID but with daily backups, although daily backups should always still be users’ own responsibility. Here is one positive review on the performance of the VPS, and benchmark posted on their previous post also shows impressive disk IO. Spanish company with domain first registered in May 2010. No SSL on WHMCS, and offers only PayPal as payment method. Update: Test IP: 178.33.117.188, thanks to Kris.
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Why 33 mbps uplink? Is this some sort of a typo?
Probably artificially throttled to make higher end plans more appealing?
LOL. I think I would have to agree, seen the next plan with 66mb uplink and the rest is 100mbps uplink
The limit is not 100Mbps,
from level4 you get 1Gbps.
The test IP is ?
ssd.cpq.is (178.33.117.188)
That’s what I call a revolutionary offer. SSD FTW! I would recommend this for someone running lets say a forum, over XEN VPS with same resources, hmmm, agree on that?!
My review that was mentioned.
For the exact box IP / test IP that was asked:
ssd.cpq.is (178.33.117.188)
-K, were.so
The owner has admitted to using a RAID0, he seems to think i’m lying that SSD’s randomly just die.
Francisco
Here is the reference, although I cannot confirm whether they are really using RAID0 on those new offers. Judging from the performance, as 320 series seems to cap write speed at around 200MB/sec, yes it would be likely that they use a strip to get the 300MB/sec figure.
I guess we’ll see in the next 12 months on the reliability of this thing.
12 months? Try a few weeks as TRIM is not supported in raid or ext3, GC cannot work as there is no idle time in raid, so a few weeks from now performs should degrade to a stand still.
Hi,
yes, we use a RAID-0 config for our SSD VPS offer.
In security terms, we do a daily vzdump in a remote FTP server with dual snap, in crash case, we can restore the last 12h backup or the last 36h backup.
If you need a redundant service, you can do a constant rsync and syncronize your VPS data to other backup VPS, or run mysql-mmm or similar.
If you need a cheap low cost and very speedy server, our offer is for you ;)
Regards!
@Tim Flavin , I have read all day about TRIM support in Linux. You have reason, we are working in a risk performance system. Anyway… we are working in a new cluster!! :)
CentOS 6 + 2.6.32 + EXT4 is supported by OpenVZ and TRIM seems work… we will try, more info soon ;)
Thanks for your comment :O
done! discard is not supported with RAID-0, but TRIM is enabled and not problems with noatime. Better performance in EXT4, 353 MB/s!!!
Regards!!
[root@cluster004 vz]# uname -a
Linux cluster004.vpsdeploy.com 2.6.32-042stab024.1 #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 15:23:12 MSD 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep TRIM
* Data Set Management TRIM supported
* Deterministic read after TRIM
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]# cat /etc/fstab | grep ext4
/ ext4 noatime,discard,defaults 1 1
/dev/mapper/vz-vz /vz ext4 noatime,discard,defaults 1 2
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]# dmesg | grep ext4
[root@cluster004 vz]# dmesg | grep EXT4
[ 4.652875] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[ 4.657863] EXT4-fs (md0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[ 5.502743] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
[ 10.435771] EXT4-fs warning (device md0): release_blocks_on_commit: discard not supported, disabling
[ 16.244111] EXT4-fs warning (device dm-0): release_blocks_on_commit: discard not supported, disabling
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]#
[root@cluster004 vz]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 3.04529 s, 353 MB/s
[root@cluster004 vz]#
This will be very interesting to watch over time, as a quick search turned up nothing that shows mdadm and trim being supported.
RAID-4 full supported, no infos about RAID-0 –>
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/newmds-ssdtuning.html
RAID-1 patch supported –>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5fc2ffeabb9ee0fc0e71ff16b49f34f0ed3d05b4
I’m so waiting for this card to add support as it will probably be the first company to do so http://thessdreview.com/our-reviews/areca-1880ix-12-pcie-6g-sas-raid-controller-review-ssd-in-raid-0-lightning-strikes-at-3-6gbs/
That is just stupid fast on a $900 raid card.
But not only about read/write speed, but also improves performance, as physical read/write in HDD greatly reduce performance. I used an SSD in my old netbook, which loaded Windows faster than my laptop that was several times more powerful! Applications loading was amazing as well. That was with performance of a 3 years ago, 8GB SSD.
However I can see the point of possibility of shortened life, or random die, when used in servers. Since if normal SSD is designed for home use to work for 5 years, then in a server used by 10 users 24h/7d, it is possible to wear out in 6 months! That is only if SSD wasn’t able to overcome limited life span in any recent models.
How reliable are they? :)
Nice offer, although I think SSD isn’t ready for prime-time production use yet…
… and it’s at OVH datacentre of course.
Is that good or bad?
is good, a very big infra and connectivity
http://www.robtex.com/as/as16276.html
In France, but connected to NY and peering with HE. Also good option for USA users…
By the way, connection to USA is horrible ;)
My web filter just picked that site up for ‘Weapons and Violence’:L
they stole my business plan :<
(ok only around 60-70% of it)
If would be nice to see some dd tests!
I don’t like that you keep your node rebooting every fee days, especially without any notice or apology.
No more reboots, cluster004 is here ;)
@iKocka horrible? sorry, I only understand logs… this is my tracert from my SSD VPS to arrive to NY. This is perfect!!
[root@cluster003 ~]# tracert 198.32.118.106
traceroute to 198.32.118.106 (198.32.118.106), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 46.105.111.253 (46.105.111.253) 0.352 ms * *
2 rbx-g2-a9.fr.eu (178.33.100.113) 0.689 ms 0.762 ms 1.143 ms
3 ldn-5-6k.uk.eu (91.121.131.178) 4.216 ms * *
4 paix.ny.routers.ovh.net (198.32.118.106) 75.225 ms 75.332 ms 75.458 ms
I’m talking about single thread connection speeds which are in KB/s. NY is not the only city in USA.
Very appealing, would have loved to try it but the port speed is really holding me back on this one…
hi,
I wonder how long it takes to send the server data and IP, it has signed a two-day plan with vpsdeploy.com and so far have no answer.
Thanks
I see U’re running VMs on SSD.. like me (OCZ Vertex3, Intel 320 300GB coming soon).
Kernel 2.6.32 doesn’t support TRIM. You need at least 2.6.33..